Hello i've been set a university assignment where i have to cost 20 workstations, a file server and its backup. When costing the server i have noticed that most of the of the ready made servers all have a Pentium 4 processor.

It there a reason for this?

Also can someone tell me if i've got this right...

If i was to specify a full version of windows 2000 server with 25 clients i wouldn't need to cost any other software for the workstations and the operating software required for each workstation would be able to be installed via the server removing the need for a cd drive on each of the workstations.

If the above is not right could someone let me know what i would need to specify for operating software

Tell me exactly what Costing a server is please. The 25 client count, no, does not remove the need for a CD. The only way to do that would be to make an Image using Ghost, or you can set up a deploy package within the server to enable it to deploy that software and install it on the clients. Dont ask me how to do this though, I dont know. I just know you can.